networking issues on dapper

[Neil Woolford]

Max Andersen <max <at> militant.dk> writes:

>
> 
> I get my dhcp-address, get the broadcasted dns-server and can connect to 
> the inernal mailserver, etc., but cannot get routed to the internet. 
> Everything I try to contact externally gets a timeout.
> 
> 
> my eth0 (cable) has the same issues, but works fine at work. It's only 
> at home (wireless and cable) it doesn't work.
> 
> Anyone seen this behaviour before?
>

I have a very similar problem;  in my case Ubuntu fails to work with the local
DNS Server in my Linksys ADSL2MUE broadband modem.  If I add my ISP's static DNS
addresses (following the suggestions in the Ubuntu wiki at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StaticDnsWithDhcp to prepend them and make them persist)
then all works well.  My Windows system works fine with the ADSL2MUE, and Ubuntu
works fine with the network at work too.  I'd love to know why...

Neil